[FairfieldLife] Re: Now It Can Be Told - There Is No Shankara In MMY's Teachings

Vivekananda extended the empiricist epistemology that all knowledge is derived from sense experience into the domain of metaphysics, for he thought that since experience is the basis of all knowledge, then if a metaphysical Reality exists, it, too, ought to be available for direct experience.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Now It Can Be Told - There Is No Shankara In MMY's Teachings

Thanks Richard and E.B., very interesting discussion!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Now It Can Be Told - There Is No Shankara In MMY's Teachings

The term 'samadhi' is a Buddhist term, not an Upanishadic or Vedantic term at all. The term is used by the Shakya and Patanjali. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : What Shankara says is that duality, such as the fundamental distinction between subject and object, is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Now It Can Be Told - There Is No Shankara In MMY's Teachings

In his commentaries, when Shankara used the term “samâdhi”, he was using the term as it was used in the Yogasutra-s of Patanjali where it was called “asamprajnata-samâdhi ”. Later Vedantins used the word “nirvikalpa-samâdhi” to refer to this same state of consciousness (chitta). Nirvikalpa

[FairfieldLife] Re: Now It Can Be Told - There Is No Shankara In MMY's Teachings

since false knowledge is the cause of bondage, samâdhi cannot therefore be the cause of liberation. We get it, but re samâdhi : Shankara is simply saying that it's not a sufficient cause of liberation but it is surely a necessary cause. So MMY's attempt at a mass initiation via the TMO is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Now It Can Be Told - There Is No Shankara In MMY's Teachings

What Shankara says is that duality, such as the fundamental distinction between subject and object, is obliterated in deep sleep and in samâdhi, as well as in other conditions such as fainting, but duality is only temporarily obliterated for it reappears when one awakes from sleep or regains

[FairfieldLife] Re: Now It Can Be Told - There Is No Shankara In MMY's Teachings

"You're this you are that - blah blah." A typical insult because there is no answer for a TMO sycophant. Instead of examining the issue, yours is a display of your inability to evaluate Shankara's statement. Do you even own a copy of Shankara's Brahma Sutra Bhasya? I think not.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Now It Can Be Told - There Is No Shankara In MMY's Teachings

Anyone who has seen your history posting here knows you are just pompous bombast, another know it all know nothing.